Description |
614 pages ; 22 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Prologue: Coherence and correspondence in American thought / Morton White -- 1. Before independence: the colonial phase: American revolution considered as an intellectual movement / Edmund S. Morgan -- 2. From independence to the Civil War: the federal phase: Rise of the democratic idea / Louis Hartz -- Classic literature: art and idea / Richard Chase -- Dissolution of Calvinism / Donald Meyer -- Controversy over slavery / Dwight L. Dumond -- Ideas and economic development / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- 3. From Reconstruction to the First World War: the national phase: Social Darwinism / Donald Fleming -- Triumph of laissez-faire / Max Lerner -- Science in America: the nineteenth century / I. Bernard Cohen -- Pragmatism and the scope of science / Morton White -- Realist tradition in American law / Eugene V. Rostow -- Economic thought and the new industrialism / Paul A. Samuelson -- Realistic novel / Alfred Kazin -- Intellectual versus the city / Morton and Lucia White -- Revolution in higher education / Richard Hofstadter -- 4. From the First World War to the present: the international phase: Foreign policy: from innocence to engagement / McGeorge Bundy -- American moderns / Irving Howe -- Rise of neo-Orthodoxy / William Lee Miller -- New economics / Seymour E. Harris -- Sources of the New Deal / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- Contemplation of society in America / Edward Shils -- Modernity and mass society: on the varieties of cultural experience / Daniel Bell -- Science in America: the twentieth century / Everett Mendelsohn -- Contemporary issues in education / James B. Conant -- America and Europe: transatlantic images / Melvin J. Lasky -- European images of America / Marcus Cunliffe -- Japanese images of America / Shigeto Tsuru -- Epilogue: One against the many / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Subject |
Philosophy, American -- History.
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Philosophy, American. |
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History. |
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United States -- Intellectual life.
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Philosophie américaine -- Histoire. |
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États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle. |
Added Author |
White, Morton, 1917-2016.
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